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W W NORTON AND COMPANY The Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson (NCE) by Thomas Jefferson Wayne Franklin
This Norton Critical Edition seeks to give readers a full understanding of Thomas Jefferson's importance to the intellectual development of the United States, particularly in political theory and scientific learning; of Jefferson's role in the expansion of the territory and sovereignty of the United States; and of Jefferson's controversial relation to slavery and race as key issues in American history.The editor has selected Jefferson's most important published texts-A Summary View of the Rights of British America, the Declaration of Independence, and Notes on the State of Virginia-along with An Appendix to the Notes on Virginia Relative to the Murder of Logan's Family and his Message to Congress on the Lewis and Clark Expedition. In addition, more than one hundred of Jefferson's letters (1760-1826) have been judiciously selected from his rich body of correspondence, allowing readers to see Jefferson as a person as well as a public figure. All texts are accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations."Contexts" reprints contemporary documents that place Jefferson and his writings within the early American Republic, including works by Thomas Paine, John Adams, Francois-Jean de Beauvoir, and Luther Martin. Also included are diverse and early responses to Jefferson and his writings by, among others, John Quincy Adams, William Cullen Bryant, Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton."Criticism" provides representative works of modern interpretation and analysis that confirm Jefferson's continuing relevance. Included are twelve thought-provoking assessments from several disciplinary perspectives by, among others, Annette Gordon Reed, Peter Onuf, and Douglas L. Wilson.A Selected Bibliography is also included. Preface A Note on the TextsAbbreviationsThe Selected Writings of Thomas JeffersonA Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774)From The Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson (1829):The Declaration of IndependenceNotes of the State of Virginia (1787)An Appendix to the Notes on Virginia Relative to the Murder of Logan's Family (1800)Message to Congress on the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1803SELECTED LETTERSTo John Harvie, January 14, 1760To John Page, December 25, 1762To Robert Skipwith, August 3, 1771To Charles McPherson, February 25, 1773To John Adams, May 16, 1777To Giovanni Fabbroni, June 8, 1778To the Chevalier d'Anmours, November 30, 1780To J. P. G. Muhlenberg, January 31, 1781To Francois Barbe-Marbois, March 4, 1781To Francois Barbe-Marbois, December 20, 1781To Charles Thomson, December 20, 1781To Francois Barbe-Marbois, March 24, 1782To Francois-Jean de Beauvoir, Chevalier de Chastellux, November 26, 1782To George Rogers Clark, November 26, 1782To Thomas Walker, September 25, 1783To George Rogers Clark, December 4, 1783To Francois-Jean de Beauvoir, Chevalier de Chastellux, January 16, 1784To Charles Thomson, May 21, 1784To James Madison, May 11, 1785To Francois-Jean de Beauvoir, Chevalier de Chastellux, June 7, 1785To the Reverend Richard Price, August 7, 1785To Peter Carr, August 19, 1785To John Banister Jr., October 15, 1785To James Madison, October 28, 1785To James Madison, February 8, 1786To Maria Cosway, October 12, 1786To J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, January 15, 1787To John Stockdale, February 27, 1787To Madame la Comtesse de Tesse, March 20, 1787To Martha Jefferson, March 28, 1787To The Marquis de Lafayette, April 11, 1787To Maria Cosway, April 24, 1788To J. Hector St. Jean de Crevecoeur, August 9, 1788To The Reverend Richard Price, January 8, 1789To John Trumbull, February 15, 1789To Francis Hopkinson, March 13, 1789To John Jay, July 19, 1789To James Madison, September 6, 1789To Mary Jefferson, April 11, 1790To Mary Jefferson, June 13, 1790To Martha Jefferson Randolph, December 23, 1790To The Reverend William Smith, February 19, 1791To Benjamin Banneker, August 30, 1791To Martha Jefferson Randolph, January 15, 1792To Thomas Paine, June 19, 1792To Andre Michaux, c. April 30, 1793To James Madison, June 9, 1793To Angelica Schuyler Church, November 27, 1793To John Adams, December 28, 1796To James Madison, January 1, 1797To Mary Jefferson Eppes, January 8, 1798To Dr. Joseph Priestley, January 18, 1800To Dr. Joseph Priestley, January 27, 1800To Dr. Joseph Priestley, March 21, 1801To Samuel Adams, March 29, 1801To James Monroe, November 24, 1801To Brother Handsome Lake, November 3, 1802To Benjamin Hawkins, February 18, 1803To William H. Harrison, February 27, 1803To Meriwether Lewis, June 20, 1803To General Horatio Gates, July 11, 1803To John Tyler, June 28, 1804To the Osages, July 12, 1804To the Osages, July 16, 1804To Constantin-Francois de Chasseboeuf, Comte de Volney, February 18, 1805To the Osage and Other Indians, January 4, 1806To Constantin-Francois de Chasseboeuf, Comte de Volney, February 11, 1806To Joel Barlow, February 24, 1806To John Norvell, June 14, 1807To Thomas Jefferson Randolph, November 24, 1808To John Hollins, February 19, 1809To Henri Gregoire, February 25, 1809To Horatio G. Spafford, May 14, 1809To John Wyche, May 19, 1809To John W. Campbell, September 3, 1809To Benjamin Smith Barton, September 21, 1809To C. and A. Conrad and Company, November 23, 1809To James Madison, November 26, 1809To General Tadeusz Ko?ciuszko, February 26, 1810To Dr. Benjamin Rush, January 16, 1811To Charles Willson Peale, August 20, 1811To John Adams, January 21, 1812To John Adams, June 11, 1812To Anne Louise Germaine Necker, Madame de Stael-Holstein, May 24, 1813To Paul Allen, August 5, 1813To Paul Allen, August 18, 1813To Nicholas Biddle, August 20, 1813To John Adams, October 28, 1813To Alexander von Humboldt, December 6, 1813To Edward Coles, August 25, 1814To Samuel H. Smith, September 21, 1814To William Short, Esq., November 28, 1814To John Adams, April 8, 1816To Jose Correa da Serra, April 26, 1816To Peter S. Du Ponceau, November 7, 1817To John Adams, November 13, 1818To John Holmes, April 22, 1820To John Adams, October 12, 1823To James Monroe, October 24, 1823To Ellen W. Coolidge, August 27, 1825To Dr. James Mease, September 26, 1825To Roger C. Weightman, June 24, 1826ContextsFrom Declaration by the Representatives of the United Colonies of North-America Now Met in General Congress at Philadelphia, Setting Forth the Cause and Necessity of Their Taking Up ArmsThomas Paine * From Common SenseManuscript Notes on Resolutions of CongressFrancois Barbe-Marbois * Queries Concerning American StatesJohn Sullivan * To Jefferson, March 12, 1784, with John McDuffee's Answers to Queries Concerning the MooseWilliam Whipple * To Jefferson, March 15, 1784, with Answers to Queries Concerning the MooseJohn Sullivan * To Jefferson, with Memoranda on the Moose, June 22, 1784Francois-Jean de Beauvoir, Chevalier de Chastellux * From Travels in North America in the Years 1780, 1781, and 1782Luther Martin * To the Honorable Thomas Jefferson, Esq. Vice-President of the United States, June 24, 1797CriticismEARLY RESPONSES TO JEFFERSON AND HIS WRITINGS, 1802-1896Thomas Kennedy * Ode to the Mammoth Cheese (1802)James T. Callender * From The President Again (1802)Abraham Bishop * Oration, in Honor of the Election of President Jefferson, and the Peaceable Acquisition of Louisiana (1804)John Quincy Adams * On the Discoveries of Captain Lewis (1807)William Cullen Bryant * From The Embargo; or, Sketches of the Times (1808)Washington Irving * From A History of New York (1809)James Fenimore Cooper * From The Letters and Journals of James Fenimore Cooper (1823, 1830)George Henry Evans * The Working Men's Declaration of Independence (1829)Elizabeth Cady Stanton * Declaration of Sentiments (1848)Madison Hemings * Memoirs (1873)Moses Coit Tyler * The Declaration of Independence in the Light of Modern Criticism (1896)H. Trevor Colburn * From Thomas Jefferson and the Rights of the Expatriated ManMerrill D. Peterson * From The Notes on VirginiaFawn Brodie * From Sally HemingsJohn C. Miller * From Slavery and the Declaration of IndependenceRobert Lawson-Peebles * From Landscape and Written Expression in Revolutionary AmericaJay Fliegelman * From Jefferson's PausesAndrew Burstein * From Jefferson and the Familiar LetterAnnette Gordon-Reed * From Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American ControversyAndrew Burstein * From The Seductions of Thomas JeffersonMODERN ANALYSIS AND CRITICISMRobert M. S. McDonald * From Thomas Jefferson's Changing Reputationas Author of the Declaration of IndependencePeter Onuf * From "We Shall All Be Americans"Douglas L. Wilson * From The Evolution of Jefferson's Notes on the State of VirginiaThomas Jefferson: A ChronologySelected BibliographyIndex